| Mandy Moore hopes for a bright new dayBy Elysa Gardner, USA TODAYNEW YORK — Pop stars are not known as early risers. But Mandy Moore insists that she's a morning person."I enjoy that part of the day," says Moore. "I love waking up and having that little bit of time to get a cup of coffee. There's something about physically going out to get coffee, instead of just making it, you know?"
The wholesomely pretty 23-year-old certainly looks more at home than many of her showbiz peers would sitting in a sun-drenched cafe at 9 a.m., digging into a hearty breakfast of Irish oatmeal with flambéed bananas. But Moore's non-nocturnal nature can have its down side, as she discovered while making her new album, Wild Hope, out June 19. "We would stay up until midnight or 1 recording," says Moore, who "usually starts to fade around 10:30. So after that, I would be like, 'I'm cooked,' and I'd go to bed. And the next day I would hear, 'Oh, you missed the best jam session.' Because the rest of the band would have stayed up and had this great hootenanny."Hootenanny? Yep, that's the word Moore chooses, and without a trace of perceptible irony. If you're getting the impression... |
